Yiğit Aras Tunalı

MSc. Student at Technische Universität München

Technical University Munich

Biography

I am currently working towards an MSc in Computer Science at the Technische Universität München primarily focusing on Computer Vision & Graphics, Machine Learning, and Simulation areas. My current research interests are Rendering, Physics-based Simulation and 3D Scanning.

I am also a big fan of E-learning which I use to continuously build upon my areas of interest or learn about new topics, especially in Mathematics and Physics. In my free time, I enjoy developing various software/tools as side projects, tinker with Linux systems and contribute to Open Source Projects.

As blog posts, I will also be sharing my opinions about online courses, books, Kaggle challenges, Open Source Projects and overall anything that I find interesting.

Download my resumé.

Interests

Computer Vision
Computer Graphics
Computer Architecture
Simulations
Robotics

Education

MSc in Computer Science, 2022

Technical University Munich
BSc in Computer Science & Engineering, 2019

Sabancı University

Experience

Machine Learning and Rendering Engineer

Traverse Research

Jan 2024 – Present The Netherlands, Breda

Working on the in-house Breda renderer focuing on ML and Rendering tasks.
Implementing ML operations in HLSL using Compute Shaders

Thesis Student

Sony

Apr 2023 – Jan 2024 Germany, Stuttgart

Working on the topic “3D Human Avatar Clothing and Illumination”.
Adapting the improvements made on the head models in recent years to the full 3D body models.

Cloud Rendering Intern

Huawei

Sep 2022 – Mar 2023 Germany, Munich

Conducted research on the topic “Learned Path Guiding in Texture Space”.

Engineering Intern - Autonomous Vehicles

NVIDIA

Mar 2022 – Aug 2022 Germany, Munich

Extended and implemented new AR/VR objects for a prototype of a parking assistance system.

Data Scientist

Brainamics

Jan 2022 – Aug 2022 Germany, Munich

Developed various steps of the general EEG data pipeline and ML models using Python and Pytorch.
Researched and implemented self-supervised approaches to emotion classification using EEG data.

Data Scientist

Surplus Digital

Oct 2020 – Apr 2021 Germany, Munich

Worked as a Python back-end developer. Used Django and PostgreSQL to build the back-end of a product as part of a small team. Utilized Scrapy crawlers to gather data, process it, and store them via APIs we have built with Django Rest Framework.

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Sabanci University

Sep 2018 – Jun 2019 Turkey, Istanbul

Worked as an Undergraduate Research Assistant at VERIM (Centre of Excellence in Data Analytics) during my graduation project period, working on Plant Disease Identification. Additionally gave a seminar on using HPC and Python modules & frameworks for Deep Learning.
Verim Seminars: Weekly Deep Learning on HPC tutorials - Usage of Pandas, Numpy, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Scikit, Tensorflow, Keras and Pytorch. As well as usage of HPC clusters to train models.

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Sabanci University

Sep 2018 – Jun 2019 Turkey, Istanbul

Participant of Program for Undergraduate Research (PURE) for 2 semesters under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Husnu Yenigun and Prof. Dr. Kamer Kaya. The focus of the research was to explore different methodologies for generating Slowly Synchronizing Finite State Machines. The main method which was dealt with mostly was Genetic Algorithms.

Software Engineering Intern

Amadeus IT Group

Jul 2018 – Sep 2018 Turkey, Istanbul

Worked on a back-end application that communicated with a web-service using C# , saving results of queries to re-use when testing, decreasing the waiting time in between.